Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.